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Hello, my name is Christopher Walker, i am 28 and working as a software engineer and i am dead....
Yeah, kinda hard to get your head around it but looking at my body that's drowned in the disinfectant kinda makes you believe and there's the white door next to me calling out with a melodious tune, might as well do the existential crisis once i am inside.
Now i am in this white room waiting for afterlife, after all i am dead....
Chris: FUUUUUUCK!
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I simply don't have a way of measuring time the ground is too hard to scratch and i forgot the number of times i slept, i have discovered that i don't require food or water like this well i guess it's normal when you're dead but i have no idea why can i sleep and finally today something different happened the space itself has torn apart revealing grey flames that surrounding the room i am in.
I can see a silhouette approaching amongst the flames he... sorry she's surprisingly a beautiful lady with braided blond hair and blue eyes if not for her maid outfit i would say she's a Goddess. She came down fixed her outfit and bowed.
Maid: Good afterlife Mr. Walker i am here to convey a message that my master wishes to give.
What ? Is this really afterlife what a boring place, i figured it was like a waiting room.
Chris: May i ask who your master is ?
Maid: Of course he's the God of the previous world you were living, your unique death had him 'thinking' for a while so he says sorry for making you wait in the flames of void.
Hah! i bet he laughed his ass off... Wait!!! flames of void huh ? In most fanfictions this place would hurt like there's no tomorrow but also refine the soul, i wonder why haven't i suffered maybe that God protected me.
Chris: How long was i here anyway?
Maid: It's better if you don't know.
From her expression i can understand that it's more than i can take, i don't want to go through the stages of grief again so i won't press.
Chris: So what now Heaven, Hell or am i going to wait in this boring room.
Maid: Mr. Walker unfortunately your soul is no longer under master's domain but a reincarnation is possible. My master has requested that you would be reincarnated with some abilities.
Wait then who's protecting me from the deadly void flames ? I'll die a second time you know.
Chris: Soo do i get to choose the world ?
Please don't look that apologetic it's breaking my hopes and dreams.
Maid: For the first travel you will have to go with master's choice but subsequent plane walking will be by your choice.
That's actually not bad since i can't go to heaven why not press the "try again" button.
Chris: Do i get to choose my ability ?
Maid:The first world you're going to heavily relies on accumulation of mystery and power of legends due to that you are given three abilities that's the culmination of your previous life and the master's gift.
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-Endless Research EX
Ablity to peer in to the "truth" of any subject, scientific or magical and able to develop it further. Comes with "Eidetic Memory" (Given due to previous occupation)
-Purification EX
Ablity to purify any energy form into purest possible state, extraordinary effect on anything considered "Evil" "Corrupt" bestowed due to "unique" circumstances of death. (Who would have thought drowning in disinfectant could give such a ability)
- ROB's Travel Shard EX
Multiverse travel is no longer impossible.
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Okay those are definitely golden fingers that anyone would want the third one is giving me chills like who would give some "Mortal" something like that but apart from that it also confirms that i am going to TYPE-MOON.
I am conflicted on this matter on one hand it can be rather tame if you live a "normal" life on the other hand there are concepts i can barely understand even when this stuff was just a VN.
Chris: Do i at least get to choose the time period ?
I am desperate here maid-san please. Her bright smile gives me hope.
Maid: Yes but it can't be on any date that's in or close to Age of Gods.
Well i have no business with those times although ruling Britain alongside Artoria sounds novel it's too close of a date, considering the pros and cons my best bet would be 1905, i would be 25-30 by the time of 3rd Holy Grail war with purification Angra Mainyu can be averted, so i wouldn't have to warn that stuck up golem to summon Amakusa that guy is troublesome, but the reason the 3rd war failed was because the cup itself got destroyed making the greater grail unusable so i have to watch out for that but it's not bad, yeah the technology is not that advanced at the times but it also gives me opportunity to make investments since i know history can i prevent WW2 ? no, i don't think so.
Chris: I want to be born in 1905.
Maid: Excellent choice and Akasha Senpai shall make sure you will be born in a magus family and selected as a master please enjoy your second life, i shall take my leave.
Did she just said "Akasha senpai" ? the Root, the source and all that jazz ?
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After she left four things happened:
1- The whole room got covered with elegant looking circuitry that would make some people think it's a room from a futuristic Si-Fi movie and i am loving it.
2- Bookshelves, computers and many research related equipment started to rise from the floor following that bunch of chibi versions of myself wearing lab coats rose from the ground and started working on some documents, videos and codes that describes my memory and life, they seem to be sorting them out i can feel my thoughts getting clear by the second.
3- Across the research station a Japanese temple rose from the ground looking really solemn then the same chibi versions of me rose and started working in the temple in priest outfits, i don't feel any big immediate change but i am way more calm about this reincarnation thing.
4- Finally a terminal rose in fornt of me i instinctually know that this is the Travel Shard thingy and it's already set to destination the only thing that's troubling me that it has a countdown for arrival [1 Day until destination, thanks for your patience and for choosing XXXXX Co.]
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The countdown has finally finished and i found myself sitting in front of a women with green hair and green eyes with unnatural pale skin and dressed like a good librarian.
Akasha: Hello Mr. Walker please relax, i was informed of your arrival.
Chris: Thanks ?
Akasha: No problem you will be helping me anyway, the version of the world i am sending you in is not the main one i am watching over, the one you will be going is something i have created just for you.
That doesn't sound ominous at all.
Chris: If you don't mind me asking, why ?
She gave me a bright smile while her glasses shined anime style.
Akasha: You see Mr. Walker there are some energy types that's common in every world such as Qi or Life Force however you want to call but not everyone likes to spread it's usage in their worlds but we can't really block it since they're essential but we can keep our creations away from it, although i kept my creations away from using their life force in the that form, it's still useable because mana is created through life force they are essentially the same thing but with different applications and i want to see what would happen if someone where to use it not that i want you to join big epic fights just living your life will be enough. Depending on the results i might recreate the whole Type-moon since it keeps failing.
Chris: In summary you want me to live however i want and see the results meaning, counter force won't attack me.
Akasha: Exactly! there have been many who discovered they can use life force differently before but they have been eliminated but you will be allowed to use any of the common energies you can discover such as different uses of life force but i won't spoil other energies.
Chris: Thank you ?
Akasha: Your welcome but don't worry you're helping me by the way you're going to be born as a second son of a Magi family, i am going to hide your circuit count and elements and other stuff, otherwise you would get sealing designation right away.
Chris: Why do i have a sense of you're going to do more than that.
Akasha was at least honest with her intentions.
Akasha: Ara~ I've been caught. Fine then, when you strengthen yourself with Qi your soul will benefit from it and get stronger as well so i was hoping for a fragment to make it in to an Heroic Spirit i have bit of a habit of collecting but don't worry you won't be harmed, now that i can see what's in your mind i really want to throw you in Grand Order.
That's actually not bad, if you can ignore the mind reading heh thinking i can mess with EMIYA sounds good.
Chris: I don't have a choice, do i ?
The fact that she seems completely sincere doesn't help me.
Akasha: How did you know ?
Chris: It's been a common theme ever since i died. By the way can i pop out and head to another world then come back ?
She took the marble that represents the test version of Type-moon i am going in and started twirling it in her hand.
Akasha: First go though 3rd war then you're pretty much free to travel around, if you do well i might even give this to you in the end, of course i am going to flush out everything inside don't expect me to give you my creations but you might get your own since its hard to do without centuries of practice.
After that i finished my tea since i didn't have other questions but when i finally thought of one i was blinded by the lights before being able to ask about my origin *sigh* something so important yet forgot to ask, here goes nothing.
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